236 Lord Walsingham 07i Asiatic Tortricidae. 



931 (1). Argyroploce baslpunctana, sp. ik 



Anten7m' brownisli grey. Palpi white. Head and thorax 

 browni-sh grey, the latter with a raised chestnut-brown tuft 

 posteriorly. Fore icings mottled with bluish grey and dark 

 i'uscous, some obscure chestnut-brown patches interspersed 

 across the middle, followed by a rather shining white tornal 

 patch produced upward nearly to the costa, but not reaching 

 the apex, which is occupied by a triangular chestnut-brown 

 patch ; there is some greyish fuscous mottling on the inner 

 and outer sides of the white patch ; on the costa are five pairs 

 of oblique geminated white streaks, two before and three 

 beyond the middle, the latter followed by two single ones 

 before the apex ; at the base is a conspicuous white spot on 

 the cell ; cilia pale cinereous, mottled with brown and fuscous, 

 a dark brown line along the ternien at their base, preceded by 

 a narrow white streak along the upper half of the termen, 

 Exp. al. 22 mm. Hind wings greyish brown ; cilia pale 

 cinereous, a greyish brown line running through them near 

 their base. Abdomen and legs brownish grey. 



Type, ? (70135) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. Japan {Fryer, 1886). Two specimens. 



931 (2). Argyroploce lacteifacies, sp. n. 



Antennce brownish grey. Palpi short, porrect, median 

 joint rather thickly clothed, terminal joint small and partly 

 concealed ; white, shaded with greyish brown externally at 

 their base. Head greyish brown above, face white. Thorax 

 greyish brown, sprinkled with white, with a moderately deve- 

 loped tuft posteriorly. Fore wings milky white, strongly 

 shaded with bluish grey and greyish fuscous along the costa 

 and dorsum to two-thirds the wing-length, the costal shade 

 narrower at the base and widening outwards, the dorsal shade 

 wider at the base and narrowing outwards, both sprinkled 

 with whitish scales and with some whitish geminations on 

 the costa ; there is a slight olivaceous tint at the outer por- 

 tion of these costal and dorsal shades passing across the pale 

 space between them, and below the middle of the wing 

 beyond it is a mixed blue-grey and greyish fuscous spot ; the 

 apical third white, with a slight olivaceous hue, an olivaceous 

 grey shade curving inwards and upwards from below the 

 middle of the termen, with three olivaceous grey costal streaks 

 above it; cilia greyish, sprinkled witli white, a greyish 

 fuscous line along their base. Exp. al. 17 mm. Hind wings 



